Monday, February 11, 2013

I'm a Good Guesser

The post title is the only way to explain this:

My results testify to my guessability, mainly coz I didn't know the answer to one single question on this quiz. Not one. You can take the quiz here, but don't bother if you either (a) failed geography or (b) aren't a good guesser.And then there's this:

Heh. "Heeeey, Bay-bee..."

Update, 1415 hrs: Further to the 'toon, above:

Texas
governor Rick Perry knows how to start a rumble. Last week, he spent a
mere $24,000 on radio ads in California, urging firms there to move to
Texas, with its “zero state income tax, low overall tax burden, sensible
regulations, and fair legal system.” The ad goaded Governor Jerry Brown
into telling reporters that Perry’s effort wasn’t news. “It’s not a
burp,” he sneered. “It’s barely a fart.”

But his insult generated dozens of stories about the differences
between Texas and California, playing into Perry’s hands. He begins a
four-day barnstorming tour of California today, touting Texas’s virtues
to business owners.

[...]

“Perry’s getting exactly what he wanted,” Gavin Newsom, the former
Democratic mayor of San Francisco and now the state’s lieutenant
governor, told radio station KQED. “He’s getting all kinds of press up
and down the state, and why? Well, because he’s leaning in. He’s in the
game. He’s getting in our heads.” Newsom ought to know. In 2011, he
accompanied a group of state legislators on a fact-finding trip to Texas
to interview former California business owners about their reasons for
moving. Newsom told me at the time: “I am impressed with the focus on
job creation I’ve seen here. We need to have a more balanced business
climate in California.”

Indeed, in the last five years Texas has gained 400,000
new jobs while California has lost 640,000. The Lone Star State’s rate
of job growth was 33 percent higher than California’s last year, even as
the Golden State finally pulled out of the recession.